Sylvie Auvray. Strange things in my soup

(excerpt from the text by Franck Gautherot)

Sylvie Auvray is a visual artist based in Paris. Auvray plays with different materials and techniques including paintings, bronze, plaster and aluminium sculptures and ceramics. Working on various scales ranging from the large to the minuscule, she combines primitive forms with sharp and strident colours. Ceramics allows Sylvie Auvray to model with vivacity ductile and pleasant volumes, while the textures can be strained, curled, triturated, and the shiny enamels can be painted, poured and interpenetrated, with the bonus of the excitement of the magical surprises that will be brought by the firing. Her works, including wearable items such as jewelry and masks and totems taking on human and animal forms, have a nostalgic narrative quality, and at the same time are imbued with energy by the formless childhood fears, barbaric experiments, and destructive joys evoked by their bizarre wounds and disturbing deformations.

The artist's most relevant exhibitions include MAMCO, Le Capucin, MO.CO. Panacée, the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas during her residency; MAMVP, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; FRAC Champagne Ardenne; Consortium, Dijon; Dairy Art Center, London; Musée d'art moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centre d'art contemporain Circuit, Lausanne; Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Her works have joined the collections of: Collection du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, France, FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MECA, France, FRAC Champagne- Ardenne, France, FRAC Normandie Caen, France Consortium Museum, France, Fonds d'art contemporain – Paris Collections, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole (collection XXe).